Review Summary

André Téchiné’s seductive drama “The Girl on the Train” opens with an extended traveling shot inside a tunnel. The camera appears to be perched at the front of the train, so that it looks as if we’re hurtling through the dark toward the nearing light, an apt description of what happens to the title character and, to an extent, the viewer. The film can be described as a character study or a fictionalized slice of terribly real life. Mostly, though, it is an inquiry into the mysteries of other people. — Manohla Dargis